An experimental evaluation of the assumption of independence in multiversion programming
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Information and Software Technology - Software quality assurance
Introduction to Software Testing
Introduction to Software Testing
Code Conjurer: Pulling Reusable Software out of Thin Air
IEEE Software
ICSE '09 Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Software Engineering
Software Engineering
Automated creation and assessment of component adapters with test cases
CBSE'10 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Component-Based Software Engineering
Discrepancy discovery in search-enhanced testing
Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Search-Driven Development: Users, Infrastructure, Tools, and Evaluation
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The prime obstacle to automated defect testing has always been the generation of "correct" results against which to judge the behavior of the system under test - the "oracle problem". So called "back-to-back" testing techniques that exploit the availability of multiple versions of a system to solve the oracle problem have mainly been restricted to very special, safety critical domains such as military and space applications since it is so expensive to manually develop the additional versions. However, a new generation of software search engines that can find multiple copies of software components at virtually zero cost promise to change this situation. They make it economically feasible to use the knowledge locked in reusable software components to dramatically improve the efficiency of the software testing process. In this paper we outline the basic ingredients of such an approach.